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MUMBAI: At least thirteen people died and seven others hospitalised in a critical condition after they consumed spurious liquor in a slum in suburban Malad, police said today. Mumbai Police spokesperson Dhananjay Kulkarni said several persons drank the concoction last night and by 7:30 PM this evening, 13 people have lost their life while seven others are admitted in a critical condition in KEM and Shatabdi hospitals. While three people died in Prime Hospital , five in Shatabdi Hospital , four in BMC Hospital and one in Siddharth Hospital across the city.

BERN: Banks in Switzerland have reported 53 possible acts of money-laundering in the investigation of FIFA's 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding contests, the country's attorney-general said today. Michael Lauber said the "suspicious bank relations" were filed to comply with Switzerland's regulations against money laundering. The federal prosecutor described a "huge and complex" case which targets "criminal mismanagement and money-laundering" in the bidding contests which sent the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 tournament to Qatar.

LONDON: A murder investigation has been launched into the death of blues legend BB King after two of his daughters claimed he was poisoned. Karen Williams and Patty King said the 89-year-old musician was given "foreign substances to induce his premature death" by his business manager Laverne Toney, reported BBC online. Lawyers for King's estate said the claims are unfounded and disrespectful. But the possibility of homicide will now be investigated by the coroner and police in Nevada.

CHENNAI: DMK treasurer M K Stalin today urged the Tamil Nadu government to constitute an expert panel to inquire into the poor performance of engineering college students under the jurisdiction of state-run Anna University in recently held exams. "It is of deep concern that the quality (education) of engineering colleges under the control of Anna University has steadily been losing out in quality," he said in a Facebook post. Forty seven per cent of engineering students who appeared in the November-December 2014 semester exams had failed, he claimed.

WASHINGTON: The FBI is probing threats to at least 10 international flights after a man claimed chemical weapons were aboard the jets, media reports said today. Maryland State Police received an anonymous call threatening commercial flights, claiming bombs and chemical weapons were on board. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation , the threats of chemical weapons inside these international flights were considered not credible. However, investigations were being carried out as precautionary measure, reports said.

NEW DELHI: BJP leader Subramanian Swamy today demanded setting up a multi-disciplinary special investigating team to re-investigate the "conspiracy" behind the mysterious death of Jan Sangh founder Deen Dayal Upadhyay . In a press release, he said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should direct the setting up of Special Investigation Team (SIT) as he described the probe by the CBI as a "cover-up". He said close associates of Upadhyay such as Nanaji Deshmnukh and Dattpant Thengadi never accepted the findings of the CBI that he was pushed out of the train by robbers.

NEW DELHI: NIA today took over the probe into last December's IED blast at a busy road in Bengaluru in which a woman was killed. A case under various sections of Indian Penal Code, Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and Explosives Substances Act has been registered at NIA office in Hyderabad, officials said. The move comes following an order by Union Home Ministry asking National Investigation Agency (NIA) to probe the case, they said. Suspected militants had on December 28 wrapped the improvised explosive device (IED)

NEW DELHI: The CBDT has effected an in-house change of charges with Chairperson Anita Kapur divesting the additional charge of investigations to another Member in the board. A latest order issued by the Central Board of Direct Taxes , the apex policy making body the Income Tax department, said the charge of investigations will be held by Member Surabhi Sinha while newly-appointed Member S K Ray has been entrusted with the charge of Audit and Judicial. Kapur has been handling the additional charge of Member I-T investigations since she took over as the CBDT Chairperson in November last year.

NEW DELHI: A Special Investigation Team (SIT) will probe into the alleged encounter killing of wanted criminal Manoj Vashishtha at a restaurant in Central Delhi's New Rajender Nagar area. The decision was taken by Home Minister Rajnath Singh after family members of Vashishtha met him here today. "Further course of action like whether to conduct a probe through CBI would be taken only after receiving the report of the SIT," a Home Ministry official said. Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi, who met Union Home Secretary L C Goyal, said the SIT was constituted for a professional and speedy investigation.

NEW DELHI: Investigators probing Sunanda Pushkar death case have sought lie detector test of three key witnesses to verify certain evidence, Delhi Police chief BS Bassi said today, even as there is indication that around a dozen witnesses may be asked to undergo the examination. The Delhi Police has approached a city court for permission to carry out polygraph test on Narain Singh, who is domestic help of Sunanda's husband and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, driver Bajrangi and family friend Sanjay Dewan.